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ERIC Number: EJ890308
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Mar
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0190-2725
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The Color of the Undergraduate Experience and the Black Self-Concept: Evidence from Longitudinal Data
Oates, Gary L. St. C.
Social Psychology Quarterly, v67 n1 p16-32 Mar 2004
The present study assesses the impact of attending colleges with higher black enrollment on African Americans' self-esteem and self-efficacy. It tests Rosenberg's proposition that racially "consonant" environments enhance self-appraisals. The LISREL models control for various pre-college attributes and for institutional selectivity. Higher black enrollment enhances post-college self-esteem but does not significantly influence self-efficacy. Both dimensions of the self-concept are enhanced substantially by post-college socioeconomic status, an objective indicator of achievement. Longitudinal NLS-72 data are merged with institutional selectivity data and continuous data on black enrollment to facilitate these analyses, a process that previously would not have been possible. (Contains 2 figures, 3 tables, and 29 footnotes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Higher Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972
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